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That wouldn't be definitive. A teammate could only report what they observed. Robbins, NDSU, and the NCAA knows what the substance in question is. They have the test report data.

Should NDSU choose to announce any further information about this matter, I can't think of a better week to do it. The football team was in DC; there's a donor announcement Thursday at NDSU (per ira). It would easily be at best third in this week's NDSU news cycle. And third prize doesn't even get you the steak knives.

For my own consistency, until we have an official statement from a party with first-hand knowledge (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA) we don't know that.

Under the assumption you are tacitly stating, namely that the issue is caffeine, and under your implicit claim to know the supplement in question and its caffeine content, and that of Mountain Dew, it is possible given potential consumption times and biologic half-lives. So possible, but many assumptions and moving parts in there. That said ... we know none of that because there are no stated facts about the detected stimulant from any involved party (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA).

Seeing (UND recruit) Ethan Frisch's brother Grant is a sophomore defenseman on the varsity, ... Go Spuds.

Altru has the Mayo relationship. UND Med has the Mayo Cohort. Why not see their Denny and raise them the Brothers Mayo? Has Mayo been approached? Yes, that would be out of character for Mayo; they don't do a lot of "slap my name on" showy stuff.

"Go big or go home." -- SiouxVolley (c) 2019

... to pull in more MSP metro kids. Yes. Who should be upset by this? SDSU and USD. Sanford is building a problem for them in Sioux Falls. Instead I have the feeling they have to sit back and accept it.

If Kennedy went to McGarry and said you can have any single thing under my power at UND changed, at your whim, aside from my removal, I wonder what she'd choose. Her answer would be so telling.

Lots and lots of egos leading to misadventures all around.

Will Augie keep football or will they pull an Omaha and drop the sport? If they keep football, will they move it to the Pioneer League?

We don't have official statement from a source that would have first-hand knowledge (meaning NDSU, Robbins, or the NCAA). Short of that official word we have only claims and hearsay (no matter what one may choose to believe).

Again, we don't know that is the stimulant to have been found at excessive (meaning illegal in NCAA competition) levels.

To this point Robbins' problem has been speculated to be caffeine; it has not been officially confirmed by any party that would have direct knowledge (Robbins, NDSU, NCAA).

Fenton's older brother is on the OL at Wisconsin.

People are focusing on Larson refuting a Robbins claim ("trusted program staff member" vs "student-athlete"). What we're not seeing is that Larson all but affirmed a different portion of what Robbins claims ("student-athlete", "throughout the locker room" full of student-athletes). So, whatever it is (and we don't definitively know what "it" is yet), at minimum Larson's student-athletes have "it" by his word. That would seem to make Robbins' second claim plausible.

Haven't they already? Or is this the final installment?

I write a check for a parent (who's no longer capable) for $6775 each month for their living facility. Then I write checks for medical insurance, prescription meds, and expenses of living.

The budget in the Legislature being proposed by the Governor is $14.2 billion ($14,200 million) for two years. $6,000 million runs the State for 10 months.

That's just short of a decade old. That's from when NDSU players were robbing Best Buy or when NDSU players were faking ballot petition signatures.

Dang. I like Hesham.

As a former politician he's used to being on the "demanding tribute" side of the equation, not the "being demanded of". He was a 'fixer' in corporate life; that applies when dealing with internal budgets.

Remember when I said ... It's gotten worse ...

Will Brock Robbins be on the trip?